WEEKLY DISPATCH

After the government's decision to approve a massive LNG project and two controversial pipeline projects, Tzeporah Berman asks whether its national energy policy and its Paris promises add up. The answer, she says, lies in understanding what Canada actually committed to.

Our friends at Arctic Deeply introduce us to the people who stand apart when it comes to improving education, fighting climate change, boosting international collaboration and revitalizing Indigenous culture in the Arctic. We highlight some below, and link to the full list.

BEST OF THE WEB

For Mosaic, Ed Vulliamy, who covered the Balkans war 25 years ago, returns to Bosnia to chronicle how scientists are helping to piece together evidence from mass graves in order for surviving relatives to finally have some closure. The dead "appear as statistics, all 40,000 of them," says one interviewee."But each number is a horror story that people are going through, every one of them like a novel you could read for the rest of your life.”

For this Globe and Mail feature, Mark MacKinnon travelled to half a dozen countries over several months, tracking down the Syrian boys behind an act of rebellion - the spraying of anti-Assad graffiti - that sparked the conflict that is now tearing Syria apart, and having hard-hitting, wide-ranging effects across the world, from the rise of ISIS to the refugee crisis.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Dec. 14, 2016, Toronto
OpenCanada's managing editor Eva Salinas will moderate a discussion with former diplomat Jeremy Kinsman and Conservative Party leadership candidate Chris Alexander entitled "Is Russia A Threat? What Should We Do?" This is a Ryerson University event.